Improvement in paper products



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE N JOHN L. KENDALL, OF FOXBOROUGH,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER PRODUCTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,548, dated November11, 18721.; application filed April 18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. KENDALL, of Foxborough, Norfolk county,State of Massachusetts, have invented a Substitute for Oil- ClothCarpeting, of Which the following is a specification This inventionrelates to certain improve ments in the manufacture of articles from'pafper pulp and sponge, for Which Letters Patent Were granted me on the 6thday of August, 1872, andnumbered 130,222; and the object of the presentinvention is to furnish a cheap and durable substitute for oil-clothcarpeting; and it consists of a fabric composed of sponge and paper, ashereinafter described, Which is treated with linseed-oil and ornamentedon its surface by printing or painting, as will be more fully describedhereafter. q

The drawing illustrates a face view of my substitute for oil-clothcarpeting, the square portions intended to illustrate one manner ofornamenting the surface of the same.

The paper pulp and sponge is rst saturated with linseed-oil, and it isthen subjected to pressure, either by passing it through pressure-rolls,or Within a suitable press, or other- Wise, to express therefrom theexcess of oil,

and to compress it into a compact and close shape, and yet leave itspliability intact. The surface of the fabric is then suitably ornamentedby painting or printing in any suitable manner. I have shown the surfaceof the fabrie ornameuted by squares A B, so that it may be ornamented intWo colors, (or more, if desired,) in the present instance, the squaresmarked A intending to represent red and the Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, ALBERT W. BROWN.

